Forgive me if this has been adequately covered elsewhere, but in intermittently reviewing the Digest and Iain and others' continual efforts to map our community to the most up-to-date information, it's become a bit overwhelming to know how best we individual participants can help the group by pursuing additional testing. This has become especially true following the mapping of some of the individuals who have pursued Big Y. Would it be possible for those who are closer to the current status to provide some general advice on what those who have pursued Chromo2 or Geno 2.0 may do to help refine these trees? Is there enough information for some of us to pursue individual SNP tests; are there broad areas of the tree where additional Big Y or FGC participants would be useful to the group? Should we hold off for now? How can we help? RG

This is a community effort, with all of our DNA statistics combined. Really, SNP and STR data mean almost nothing to any of us as individuals. But a combination of many individual DNA statistics could help to put the big genetic picture together. So go for whatever SNP and STR testing as you could afford, then turn those test results over to the committee on this board, who in turn will then better assess who you are and where you come from, And that is as good as good gets! On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 3:20 PM, William Guinn <william.guinn@gmail.com>wrote: > Forgive me if this has been adequately covered elsewhere, but in > intermittently reviewing the Digest and Iain and others' continual efforts > to map our community to the most up-to-date information, it's become a bit > overwhelming to know how best we individual participants can help the group > by pursuing additional testing. This has become especially true following > the mapping of some of the individuals who have pursued Big Y. > > Would it be possible for those who are closer to the current status to > provide some general advice on what those who have pursued Chromo2 or Geno > 2.0 may do to help refine these trees? > > Is there enough information for some of us to pursue individual SNP tests; > are there broad areas of the tree where additional Big Y or FGC > participants would be useful to the group? Should we hold off for now? > > How can we help? > > RG > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DNA-R1B1C7-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >